When I go into my placements I go in at very different times, Monday morning for middle school, Friday afternoon for High School. The game of school seems to change a lot with the day and grade level. Middle school students that play the game are the ones that when are told to work on assignments in the back, they may either try to do no work and act as though they are when you walk by, or they may work at a table with students who do their work regularly and try stealing the answers. This often depends if what they get is for homework/ graded or not. If its not for homework they brush it off and don't work at it. If it is for homework or going to be collected they sneak some answers from friends. The teacher counters their move by not telling them if it's for homework or not this works sometimes but only for he first class, by the third period the kids figured out from friends what will be collected or not.
In the high school students have learned that if you ask enough times the teacher will show them a video. Videos are well integrated into my CT's lesson plans, and for good reason. What I have noticed is that every time the video ends youtube will show 5 or more new options of videos to watch. So if you watch a video on centipedes a suggested video may be centipede fights spider. The second that screen pops up they all beg to see it because hey, it beats class.
The game of school is much much bigger then what meets the eye when observing a class once a week. I know how these rascals work because I used to be the game of school's MVP. Students may have older siblings older friends that may still have old tests, I would combat this by obviously changing my questions, but we know some teachers don't. One time I had my mom "help me" with a Spanish paper I had to write for class, the teacher told me I was close to failing and I needed to do well. I still did not care it was just middle school Spanish. My mom wrote it embarrassingly enough, and the teacher read it and noticed some words we never learned (in Portuguese). What I hated that was a good idea was to ask me how I found those words I said the book she caught me. A lot of my homework was done 25 seconds before class as I sprinted through it looking at some one else's paper. The teachers who didn't start right away and didn't have something to work on right away I was able to pull this off on, with no idea what I was writing I would get full credit and it in the end hurt me.
To be honest, I was one of the worst students people came across until later in High school I know how it works. I have a very advantage from all the expediences of my schooling and playing the game so frequently. I can even visualize new tricks they might have using facebook and trading homework answers. I think what it will take from me is to just step back think about what I am doing each day take notes on what went wrong. I will really read students work, this way if I see homework copied words for word I will have a spying eye on those students next time to see who the culprit may be. Students (at least some) would rather end up doing their work then have the their teacher catch them using their mom to do work. I am excited to make the game of school a little harder for students and make their learning a little better.
In the high school students have learned that if you ask enough times the teacher will show them a video. Videos are well integrated into my CT's lesson plans, and for good reason. What I have noticed is that every time the video ends youtube will show 5 or more new options of videos to watch. So if you watch a video on centipedes a suggested video may be centipede fights spider. The second that screen pops up they all beg to see it because hey, it beats class.
The game of school is much much bigger then what meets the eye when observing a class once a week. I know how these rascals work because I used to be the game of school's MVP. Students may have older siblings older friends that may still have old tests, I would combat this by obviously changing my questions, but we know some teachers don't. One time I had my mom "help me" with a Spanish paper I had to write for class, the teacher told me I was close to failing and I needed to do well. I still did not care it was just middle school Spanish. My mom wrote it embarrassingly enough, and the teacher read it and noticed some words we never learned (in Portuguese). What I hated that was a good idea was to ask me how I found those words I said the book she caught me. A lot of my homework was done 25 seconds before class as I sprinted through it looking at some one else's paper. The teachers who didn't start right away and didn't have something to work on right away I was able to pull this off on, with no idea what I was writing I would get full credit and it in the end hurt me.
To be honest, I was one of the worst students people came across until later in High school I know how it works. I have a very advantage from all the expediences of my schooling and playing the game so frequently. I can even visualize new tricks they might have using facebook and trading homework answers. I think what it will take from me is to just step back think about what I am doing each day take notes on what went wrong. I will really read students work, this way if I see homework copied words for word I will have a spying eye on those students next time to see who the culprit may be. Students (at least some) would rather end up doing their work then have the their teacher catch them using their mom to do work. I am excited to make the game of school a little harder for students and make their learning a little better.